The above is an album cover designed by Liselotte Watkins for the band 'The Concretes'. She does a lot of interesting fashion illustration but i am more drawn to her 3D/ Set design work. Her use of colour and the objects she uses are really effective. I don't know if some of the objects may have been painted specifically to be allocated to a coloured box . There are re-occurring themes to each section of the piece, for instance she uses mustaches and clocks more than once and there is some kind of face whether it be blatant or a suggestion of a face in each box. I think she uses a great collection of colours in this piece and in some of her other set design work (see below).
Each of the examples below give an individual suggestion of feeling, using the selected props and colour schemes. These are a few things that come to mind when i see each image...
This image reminds me of warmth, summer, sunflowers, gardening, sunbathing
Fun, happiness, playful, child-like, toys, growing up
Money, wealth, gambling, arcades, extravagance, handkerchief's
Elegance, party, posh, wealth, Monopoly man, poker
I don't know much about these pieces but viewing them as someone who is new to Watkins work, those were the first words or interpretations that came into my mind. I think it's very clever to use everyday objects that we often use and may disregard, not really seeing them properly. To collect them, arrange, set up and photograph them in the way that Watkins does turns, them in to something out of the ordinary and suddenly these everyday objects are not so mundane.
Images from: http://www.art-dept.com/illustration/watkins/
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